by Ian Ker
9 H. Montgomery Hyde, Henry James at Home (London: Methuen, 1969), 190.
10 A. 209.
11 CM 31.
12 A. 209–10.
13 A. 205, 210–11.
14 A. 211–12; Ward, GKC 321.
15 ILN xxviii. 196.
16 Ward, GKC 321–3.
17 Dorothy Collins’s notes for talk, BL Add. MS 73477, fo. 144.
18 A. 213–14, 218–19.
19 A. 213–16.
20 East Sussex News, 28 Aug. 1908. Ffinch, 144, followed by Coren, 159, and Pearce, 274, dates Knollys’s death to August 1906 because of a pencilled annotation, ‘1906?’, made presumably by Dorothy Collins, on the letter (quoted below) that Frances Chesterton sent Father O’Connor about her brother’s death, which is merely dated 25 Aug. She wrote from Battersea and must therefore have left Rye by then.
21 Barker, 155, with text corrected from BL Add. MS 73196, fos 71–2.
22 Frances Chesterton to John O’Connor, 2 Sept. [sic], BL Add. MS 73196, fo. 73.
23 John O’Connor to Frances Chesterton, 8 Sept. 1905, BL Add. MS 73196, fo. 59.
24 Barker, 155, with text corrected from BL Add. MS 73196, fo. 43.
25 I owe this information to Aidan Mackey, who was told by Dorothy Collins of a reference to this resort to spiritualism in a part of Frances’s diary that she had destroyed after Chesterton’s death. This diary, if it was not all destroyed, has disappeared.
26 It has now been published in CP i. 345–6.
27 MCC 65–7, 69, 71.
28 Her GP, Dr Bakewell, told Dorothy Collins that ‘Frances had arthritis of the spine. (Not curvature as stated by Mrs Cecil.)’ (Ward, GKC 563).
29 MC, pp. v—vi; John Sullivan, Chesterton Continued: A Bibliographical Supplement (London: London University Press, 1968), 94, 97.
30 ATC 2, 12–13, 15–17, 104–5, 202–4, 232–4.
31 ATC 61–2, 212–13, 237–8, 240.
32 ATC 5–7, 226–8, 231, 235–6.
33 ATC 3, 42–5, 69, 73, 131, 142, 189–90, 256.
34 A. 166–8.
35 A. 170.
36 A. 171.
37 A. 171–2.
38 O. 215. It is only autobiographical in the loosest sense (see Oddie, 356–60).
39 Orthodoxy (New York: John Lane, 1909), pp. vii—viii.
40 For the unpublished story ‘Homesick at Home’, which Chesterton wrote sometime ‘during the years at University College and the Slade, his time at Redway’s and then at Fisher Unwin’s, and which he ‘extensively worked and reworked … in his notebooks’ producing ‘four versions of it in various stages of development’, see Oddie, 161–2, who comments that it was never published in Chesterton’s lifetime ‘perhaps because its real literary outcome was the first chapter of Orthodoxy’’. Maisie Ward published the most finished version in CL 233–8, dating its composition to about 1896.
41 O. 211, 213–15.
42 O. 212–13.
43 O. 217, 222, 225, 227, 229, 230–1.
44 O. 233, 235–9, 240–4.
45 O. 249–51.
46 O. 252, 254, 258, 262–4, 267–8. Stanley L. Jaki, Chesterton: A Seer of Science (Michigan: Pinckney, 2001), 13, calls this chapter ‘one of the most penetrating discourses on the nature of scientific reasoning that has been so far produced’.
47 O. 270, 274–5, 277, 282–3.
48 O. 278, 286–7.
49 O. 291–5.
50 O. 297–8, 300–1, 303–5
51 307, 310, 312–13, 315, 319–21, 323–8.
52 ‘His comment on the bad statues and fripperies which so many Catholics find a trial was: “It shows the wisdom of the Church. The whole thing is so terrific that if people did not have these let-downs they would go mad’ (Ward, GKC 522).
53 O. 330–4, 336–8, 340–3.
54 O. 348, 351–2
55 O. 355, 359–60, 362–6. Cf. ‘And I knew there can be laughter | On the secret face of God.’ (‘The Fish’, CP i. 212); ‘But mirth is sacred: when from all his own | He sundered, going up a mount to pray | Under the terrible stars in stern array | Upon the lonely peak he laughed alone.’ (‘Secrecy’, CP i. 167).
56 MCC, 67–70.
57 A. 202–3.
1 CS 347–9
2 CS 352–3, 357–8.
3 Conlon, i. 138–9, 143.
4 Bernard Shaw: Collected Letters 1898–1910, ed. Dan H. Laurence (London: Max Reinhardt, 1972), 759.
5 Ward, GKC 254.
6 CS 359–62. The article was reprinted in AD 129–34.
7 Pearce, 148–50.
8 Pearce, 150–1.
9 G. K. Chesterton to John O’Connor, n.d. but postmarked 3 July 1909, BL Add. MS 73196, fo. 78.
10 Ward, GKC 220–1, with text corrected from BL Add. MS 73196, fos. 78–9.
11 CS 378–84, 386, 407, 411, 437, 456, 476–7.
12 CS 375–440.
13 ILN xxviii. 222–3.
14 G. K. Chesterton to ‘Sir’, 21 July 1915, Rare Books and Special Collections, Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame, Indiana.
15 CS 442–3, 450–1, 454, 482, 590–1.
16 CS 395, 400–2, 410, 425, 436, 455.
17 CS 397–8, 439, 461.
18 G. K. Chesterton to Robert Blatchford, n.d., photocopy, GKCL.
19 CS 387–91 393, 424–5, 461–2 465, 475, 479.
20 CS 450, 454.
21 Michael Holroyd, Bernard Shaw, ii. 1898–1918, The Pursuit of Power (London: Chatto and Windus, 1989), 213.
22 Shaw: Collected Letters 1911–1925, ed. Laurence, 523.
23 Conlon, i. 201-04.
24 Ward, GKC 205–6.
25 ILN xxviii. 400–2.
26 Ramachandra Guha, ‘A Prophet Announces Himself: Mahatma Ghandi’s “Hind Swaraj” a Hundred Years on’, Times Literary Supplement, 4 Sept. 2009. The author mistakenly dates Chesterton’s article to the third week of September.
27 Ward, GKC 202, with text corrected from BL Add. MS 73198, fo. 6.
28 Ward, GKC 202–4, with text corrected from BL Add. MS 73198, fo. 7.
29 Shaw: Collected Letters 1898–1910, 877, 881.
30 A. 149.
31 Ward, GKC 212.
32 MCC 75.
33 Ward, GKC 563.
34 Ward, GKC 213; Ffinch, 177; A. 223.
35 TT, pp. vi, 3, 42, 204, 271.
37 TT 53–4,110–11, 183 195–6
36 ILM xxxiii. 302–3.
38 TT 14, 134, 238.
39 TT 42, 150–1, 183.
40 TT 145.
41 TT 68, 220–2.
42 Ffinch, 174.
43 Ward, GKC 214; Ffinch, 176.
44 Ward, RC 92–8, 100–1,111–12; Conlon, ii. 48; Sullivan, 160; Lucy Masterman, ‘The Private Chesterton’, Manchester Guardian, 28 Apr. 1955; Dorothy Collins’s notes for talks, BL Add. MS 73477, fo. 141.
45 MM 103–4.
46 Ward, RC 102–3.
47 Ward, GKC 226.
48 I owe this point to Aidan Mackey.
49 A. 223–4; Ward, GKC 216; Ward, RC 106–9.
50 O’Connor, 44, 61, 112–3, 118–19.
51 Ward, GKC 220; O’Connor, 78–9; Ffinch, 202.
52 Barker, 192; Ffinch, 175–6.
53 Clemens, 8.
54 MCC 73.
55 Ward, RC 110.
56 Ward, GKC 453.
57 Examples of cheques signed by Chesterton as sole signatory are at GKCL. Ward, GKC 453–4, accepts ‘Keith’s assertion that Frances was the account-holder who signed the cheques, although she dismisses the rest of ‘Keith’s story.
58 MCC 78–80.
59 Ffinch, 177–9.
60 Oddie, 297.
61 BAC 58, 90–2, 99.
62 ILM xxxiii. 686–7.
63 O’Connor, 111–12.
64 O’Connor, 84–5.
65 Ward, GKC 242–3.
66 Ffinch, 184.
67 According to Ward, GKC 269, Chesterton had ‘originally intended to call the book What’s Wrong? laying some empha
sis on the note of interrogation’; but the publishers added to the title and dropped the question mark, which ‘represented a certain loss’. But the question mark in fact was retained on both the front cover and the spine, although not on the title page. John Sullivan, G. K. Chesterton: A Bibliography (New York: Barnes and Noble, 1958), 33. Actually, according to Chesterton in his Dedication, he had originally called the book What is Wrong, without a question mark.
68 Pearce, 155.
69 WW 54–5, 57, 142, 148–9, 61, 65, 63.
70 WW 65–7, 69, 93–4 48, 162, 199, 125.
71 WW 209, 82–3, 153–4.
72 WW 148, 143–4, 116, 118, 221.
73 Ffinch, 180–1.
74 AD 137–9, 72–4, 76, 78–9, 147, 150, 207–8, 210—1.
75 AD 17, 33, 201.
76 ILN xxviii. 24; xxix. 546.
77 CM 12, 158.
78 HA 28.
79 LL 97.
80 SL 29.
81 AD 115—17, 119–20.
82 AD 141–5.
83 WB 17, 137, 131—3 135.
84 AD 47.
85 WB 148–9, 160, 166.
86 WB 100, 98–9, 180, 183, 202, 209–10.
1 Wilfrid Ward, The Life of John Henry Cardinal Newman, 2 vols. (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1912).
2 Wilfrid Ward, ‘Mr Chesterton among the Prophets’, Dublin Review, 144 (Jan. 1909), 1, 15, 29.
3 A. 248.
4 Ward, GKC 229.
5 Maisie Ward, The Wilfrid Wards and the Transition,!. The Nineteenth Century (London: Sheed and Ward, 1934), 259.
6 Ward, GKC 230.
7 A. 248; Ward, GKC 232–4.
8 See below, p. 547.
9 A. 251–2; Ward, GKC 234–6.
10 A 249–51.
11 Ward, GKC 271–4.
12 Ward, GKC 252–5, 269–70.
13 Ward, RC 110.
14 Conlon, ii. 139: ‘When he wrote The Incredulity and The Secret (of Father Brown), Chesterton had perhaps rather written himself out … At the end of his life, he seemed to get a second wind, and The Scandal of Father Brown contains some of his most ingenious plots.’ Cf. Conlon, i. 427; ii. 304; Sullivan, 13–14; Barker, 196; W. W. Robson, ‘Introduction’, in W. W. Robson (ed.), G. K. Chesterton: Father Brown: A Selection (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), p. xvi.
15 Sullivan, 14, 158.
16 Barker, 196–7.
17 G. K. Chesterton: Father Brown, ed. Ian Ker (London: Penguin, 2001).
18 The following is an adapted version of my introduction to my selection of Father Brown stories cited above.
19 Sullivan, 158.
20 Cf. Conlon, ii. 325: ‘In the Father Brown stories… everything depends on the seemingly casual but illuminating observation of ordinary things and ordinary language.’
21 Conlon, ii. 133. Cf. John D. Coates, Chesterton and the Edwardian Cultural Crisis (Hull: Hull University Press, 1984), 12–13: ‘The stories mark a sharp break with the ratiocinative methods of detection which were the staple of the detective story from … Poe and which reached a climax in Conan Doyle. Father Brown operates instead by intuition informed by a theological knowledge of human nature.’
22 Robson, ‘Introduction’, p. xvi, comments on the fact that, while Father Brown is not a professional but an amateur detective, he is a professional priest.
23 FB ii. 218.
24 FB ii. 373.
25 FB ii. 219.
26 Sullivan, 133, 138.
27 FB ii. 337.
28 FB i. 45, 49.
29 FB i. 77.
30 FB ii. 64.
31 FB ii. 114–15.
32 FB ii. 179, 185.
33 FB ii. 348.
34 FB i. 127, 148, 172, 217, 226; ii. 93, 116, 137, 276, 349, 371, 374, 395, 409.
35 Sullivan, 58; Robson, ‘Introduction’, p. xvi.
36 Sullivan, 59.
37 ILN xxxiv. 238–9.
38 Sullivan, 61.
39 See above, pp. 167–8.
40 FB i. 321.
41 Sullivan, 59.
42 FB ii. 429, 432.
43 FB i. 70, 80.
44 FB i. 93.
45 Cf. Sullivan, 69. But Knox complains that Chesterton ‘occupies a good deal of his space with scene-painting’, which ‘takes up… valuable room’ (Conlon, ii.136)
46 Cf. Coates, Chesterton and the Edwardian Cultural Crisis, 13: ‘Almost all [the stories] have striking settings which illustrate Chesterton’s taste in the visual.’
47 FB ii. 147.
48 Cf. Kingsley Amis on Chesterton’s fascination with the effects of light’, according to whom Chesterton achieved ‘some of the finest, and least regarded, descriptive writing’ of the twentieth century. Sullivan, 33, 38. See also Sullivan, 69; Robson, ‘Introduction’, p. xvii.
49 FB ii. 434.
50 Robson, Introduction’, pp. ix, xix.
51 A. 128.
52 AD 220.
53 O’Connor, 31.
54 Ward, GKC 244.
55 Ward, GKC 244; O’Connor, 63; Ffinch, 197.
56 Barker, 199–200.
57 CP (1933), 257, 310.
58 MO 149.Cf. ILN xxxi. 129: ‘An intelligent Conservative is not one who wishes to conserve things just as they are, for if he is intelligent he knows that, in the medium of time, they never remain just as they are.’
59 CP (1933), 266–8, 311.
60 Ward, GKC 245–6.
61 Conlon, i. 531.
62 Ward, GKC 275, 317; MCC 85–6; Barker, 16, 210–11; Ffinch, 193–4.
63 CP i. 439.
64 Ward, GKC 317.
65 See above, p. 266.
66 O’Connor, 84.
67 Ffinch, 191–2.
68 CP i. 524.
69 Cambridge Review, 23 Nov. 1911.
70 Cambridge Daily News, 18 Nov. 1911.
71 Pearce, 168.
72 Cambridge Daily News, 18 Nov. 1911.
73 Gownsman, 25 Nov. 1911.
74 Ward, GKC 313-14; Ward, RC 114, 127, 129–30.
75 Bernard Shaw: Collected Letters 1911–1925, ed. Dan H. Laurence (London: Max Reinhardt, 1985), 54–5.
76 Michael Holroyd, Bernard Shaw, ii. 1898–1918, The Pursuit of Power (London: Chatto and Windus, 1989), 218.
77 CS 489–96.
78 Holroyd, The Pursuit of Power, 219.
79 Ffinch, 202.
80 Ward, RC 110.
81 Sullivan, 156.
82 Ward, GKC 454.
83 Clemens, 28.
84 Ward, RC 116–17, 121.
85 Ffinch, 203.
86 M. 377–80, 386, 414–15.
87 M. 268, 387, 412.
88 Ffinch, 205–6.
89 CP i. 141.
90 CP (1933), 152–4
91 MM 114–20, 163, 165.
92 MM 168–9.
93 MM 163, 168, 208–9, 212, 231, 235–6, 251–2.
94 M 30, 37–8, 60–2, 68, 80, 155, 157, 204–5, 219–20.
95 MM 15-16, 145–7, 151, 179–80, 190-1, 264.
96 CS 498–9.
97 The following account of the Marconi scandal is based on Ward, GKC 283304, and Frances Donaldson, The Marconi Scandal (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1962).
98 Donaldson, The Marconi Scandal, 55, 102.
99 P.i. 411–12.